Kendrick Lamar, Streaming Juggernaut; Spotify, Merlin Ink Global License Agreement; Zane Lowe, Beats 1 Turning Apple Music Into Netflix

Thanks to huge streaming numbers, ‘Damn.’ has quickly become Kendrick Lamar’s biggest album ever

Beats 1 creative director Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s goal in the music streaming wars, the diminishing value of exclusives, and the genius of Drake.

Spotify and Merlin, the global digital rights agency for the independent label sector, inked a new multi-year license agreement – ensuring the world’s leading independent record labels and their artists will remain at the core of Spotify’s offering to music fans.

Spotify is great for superstars like Drake and Ed Sheeran. But according to Taylor Swift's manager Scott Borchetta, the numbers are tricky.

According to a recent report from the Financial Times, music streaming is set to overtake CD and vinyl as the largest generator of income for British record labels in 2017.

Internet providers must treat all web traffic equally and cannot prioritize some content.

Music labels, which have long struggled with issues of piracy, have benefitted from the rising popularity of music streaming platforms

Blockchain technology has moved from a fringe topic to something seemingly everyone is talking about. However, unless major artists are able to participate, widespread adoption of this technology is unlikely.

Travel site Lastminute.com has launched a partnership with Spotify that will offer a range of music content based around ten world cities.

Scope out the heated battle for market share within the streaming music industry between YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music.

You may know Swedish startup Pacemaker best for its DJ app, which launched in early 2014 as a way to use Spotify’s catalogue as a source for your mixes.

Pandora has made a valiant effort with its first true on-demand offering. But it’s probably not enough to convert users of Spotify or Apple Music.

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